Wonderful news to start the day! Walt's People--Volume 31 has just been released.

As the back cover mentions:

[In this volume, animator IZZY KLEIN shares memories of story artist and Big Mouseketeer, Roy Williams, and of a prank Williams played on his colleague, Ed Penner, on a hot summer day

Actor KEVIN CORCORAN explains how, during the filming of the movie, Swiss Family Robinson, an elephant stood on his head.

Historian BOB THOMAS discusses the making of The Rescuers with sixteen Disney artists and gets candid answers from both the "old guard" and the "new blood.'

And cinematographers ERNST and JEAN HEINIGER take us to the Japan of the 1950s during the filming of two episodes of Disney's "People and Places" series Japan and Ama Girls

All this and much more...]

And here is the table of contents:

[Bob Thomas: Dorothy and Glenn Puder

The Letters of Izzy Klein

Michael Barrier: Paul Satterfield

Paul Sorokowski: Don Lusk

Ken Anderson Remembers Milt Kahl

Dave Mason: Eleanor McConville

Michael Mallory: Kathryn Beaumont

Robin Allan: Kathryn Beaumont

EMC West: Ilene Woods

Jérémie Noyer: Mary Costa

Michael Singer: Kevin Corcoran

Toshio Oka: Ernst Heiniger

Ernst Heiniger: Death is Often Closer Than You Think

Jean Heiniger: Japan as I Remember

Ernst Heiniger: A Flight from Los Angeles to Tokyo

Ernst Heiniger: A Shinto Wedding

Ernst Heiniger: The Family of Fishermen from Inatori, Japan

Jean Heiniger: A Year in the Grand Canyon

Ernst Heiniger: The Last Flight of an Owl

Ernst Heiniger: An Intimate Report on Walt Disney—Man and Genius

A Decade with Disneyland by Ed Ettinger

Bob Thomas: Andy Gaskill

Bob Thomas: Dick Sebast

Bob Thomas: Bill Cottrell

Bob Thomas: Ollie Johnston

Bob Thomas: Frank Thomas

Bob Thomas: Art Stevens

Bob Thomas: John Pomeroy

Bob Thomas: Jack Buckley

Bob Thomas: James Coleman

Bob Thomas: Cliff Nordberg

Bob Thomas: Ron Clements

Bob Thomas: Bob McCrea

Bob Thomas: Dale Baer

Bob Thomas: Don Bluth

Bob Thomas: Woolie Reitherman, Ollie Johnston, Frank Thomas, and Larry Clemmons

Jim Korkis: Joe Ranft

Michael Broggie: Buzz Price

Bob Thomas: Buzz Price]